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Monday, November 11, 2013

Mobile Monday + Mobile Startup Showcase = A Very Techy Night

A few weeks ago, I attended and lived tweeted at Mobile
Monday Boston’s Event that coincided with Mobile Startup Showcase. The event
was held at the MIT Museum, a smaller yet ‘geek-tastic’ science & tech museum,
which showcased many products developed by MIT Alumni, a great collection of Polaroid Cameras and quite the Holography exhibit. Needless to say, this was a great location
not only to have a Mobile Monday event, but to also show new startup companies
and their products.

After a lot of walking and a lot of talking, I was able to
chat with just about every company that was in attendance to discuss more about
what their companies offer. I broke down this list below between Mobile Monday’s
Sponsors & Mobile Startup Showcases Exhibitors.

Mobile Monday
Boston’s Sponsors

Boston Human Capital - Located
in Woburn, MA, Boston Human Capital partners with businesses to help solve
hiring needs by leveraging staff referrals and extensive candidate networks to
find the best-fit people to strengthen your team.

Embarcadero - Providing
the industry’s broadest and deepest set of software tools for developers, DBAs,
and architects, Embarcadero enables customers to work more efficiently with the
industry’s major database platforms, operating systems, frameworks, and
programming languages which enable customers to design, build, and run their
databases and applications in the environments they choose - free from the constraints, costs, and learning
curves associated with multiple platform-specific tools.

HireMobile - HireMobile is a mobile development company assisting clients to
expand by developing successful apps on various mobile and web platforms. Some
of HireMobile’s strengths include; development of an
app/software/system/website, Social Networking, Games & complex
graphics/animations & E-commerce set-up.

Mobiquity- With locations around the world, Mobiquity is
an innovative firm that simplifies mobile for hundreds of companies. They push
the envelope of innovation to deliver the right solution to address business
challenges or surface business opportunities by designing, building, deploying
and managing mobile solutions that work for your business.

WinterWyman – A
leading recruitment firm headquartered in the Northeast for more than 40 years,
WinterWyman has helped thousands of companies, from Fortune 500 companies to
start-ups – identify, attract and recruit talented professionals.

Mobile Startup
Showcase Exhibitors

Ask Beatrice - Ask
Beatrice is a parking ‘widget’ located on a business’ website to help motorists
find parking within walking distance to the particular business and help to
avoid costly parking tickets.

Canary - Calendar app that lets you manage/edit/schedule all of
your appointments and events from Google & Facebook calendars all in one
convenient place.

CO Everywhere – Social Media App that lets you find out what’s
happening in one particular area via
social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook & Instagram, conveniently
organized on one app.

CoachUp – CoachUp is
an app that lets you find personal coaches in your area to train and practice
with on any particular sport.

good2gether - Company that uses smartphones to connect businesses that ‘do
good’ to consumers who care about the causes that they both support.

HeyWire - App that provides free texting for
businesses, combining SMS and Twitter, send and receive messages across
smartphones, tablets and the web.

THE MEME - A mobile phone app that creates ‘Organic
Parking’; a transaction system of exchanging information for swapping car
parking spots throughout the city of Boston and surrounding areas for a
fraction of the cost.

Mobee - An app that
allows users to be mystery shoppers at participating venues and are rewarded
the more they shop/dine.

HubEngage- Created by the
folks from Mobinett, HubEngage is a social app that allows users to ‘check in’
participating venues and use their app in the same way a loyalty card to redeem
offers and earn points for every visit.

NeuroCrunch–
Although still in development, Big Hippo is the first app created by
NeruoCrunch that will allow you to instantly recall and remember personal
information of people you interact with by way of voice recognition technology.

Playrific – Mobile company that creates apps for a younger
audience, as well as, work with other business partners an alternative way to
using a mobile platform to create and develop apps for kids.

PreApps – Website dedicated to getting the word out on new apps
to users and the marketplace prior to release.

QuadWrangle– App
that allows you to connect with other alumni, which lead to better connections
and organization of reunions & donations.

Quantra – A subsidiary of
Taiwan-based Quantra Computer, INC, the world’s leader in the production of
laptop computers, Quntra Research based in Cambridge has developed an app that
allow an easier use of the creation and sharing of location based services.

Roomzilla – Creative software that
allows a company to easily book, confirm and organize meeting space fast and
efficiently.

Salespod – An efficient web app that allows small and medium
sized businesses manage field activities, coach and provide their team with
relevant information on the spot, all while tracking their team’s activities in
real time.

SessionM – Developed an innovative mobile loyalty and
advertising platform that connects consumers with mobile content and
advertising in fun and rewarding new ways.

Skimbox – A wicked smart app that organizes email for busy
people on the go by creating one box for important email you need to view and
another for all other email that can wait.

Snaptiva– An interactive personal style app that allows consumers to snap
a picture of anything with a specific color, search thought millions of
products and find products that match their item’s color, such as finding shoes
to match a bag.

Sold. – Serviceapp that took over the burden of
selling by adding a few photos and a description, the pricing calculator determines
the perfect price for the item. From there the app handles the selling, the
shipping, and the payment in one convenient place.

SoundFest – A revolutionary app dubbed “RealClarity”, this app helps
people who have difficulty understanding speech in noisy situations, clarifies
voices and other sounds people want to hear, while filtering out distracting
noise.

The Tap Lab – Creator of Tiny Tycoon, the first location-based
tycoon game on the App Store that turns real life into an interactive game
board consisting of everyday people and places to compete with and take over
your favorite real world places.

Thyme Labs – in production software company that is focused on
time management tools and personal data analytics.

Timebre – A cool new app available for Apple & Android,
Timbre is a free location-based service app that allows you to find concert
venues in your area to discover live music and concerts.

Tocobox Inc. – Startup Company that is developing “Mailki”, an easy to use email
system for children ages 6-12 that is also monitored by parental controls.

Unbound Commerce – Developing a
new concept for large retailers and brands, Unbound Commerce created a new
touch screen technology that bridges the gap between retailer and consumer online
and offline.

vFrame – Creating a patent pending product, ‘virtual
reality frames’ connect to your smartphone and from there you can play video
games in a 360° view.